Kilingili murders should be solved expeditiously

A woman cries after viewing the bodies of four guards at Kilingili market on Sunday. [Eric Lungai, Standard]

Nothing speaks loudly of growing insecurity than the Sunday murder of five security guards in Kilingili, a market on the Vihiga and Kakamega Counties border. This came after bandits attacked Lomelo in Turkana County on Sunday, killing a police reservist.

Granted, criminals will always be found within society, but the circumstances around the deaths in Kilingili point accusing fingers at the police. Claims that officers at Kilingili police post, a mere 50 metres from the killing field failed to respond to the distress calls ostensibly because the area in question does not fall under their jurisdiction are distressing.